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In my experience 75% or more survival is a success with new shrimps so I wouldn't have been upset at your new shrimp survival rate. They will probably start breeding anyway soon if everything is to their requirements so you should soon be more than compensated?

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In my experience 75% or more survival is a success with new shrimps so I wouldn't have been upset at your new shrimp survival rate. They will probably start breeding anyway soon if everything is to their requirements so you should soon be more than compensated?

Simon

The previous red wine died, but i'm not quite happy with these, some how they don't look the same, may be I fell in love with the old one, the old one had a body ratio which I liked, these new one are thinness, or may be just need food to beef up it's body

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I also preferred the previous red wines as they had more red, but the new ones are still very nice and I think you have some male and female so you may get some different types (red ruby etc) and they may just be thinner if they are not so mature which is a good thing as they will likely live and breed longer, all being well? Buying fully grown shrimps is always a bit of a gamble as you don't know how old they are and they only live about 18 months anyway?

I have to admit to having lost track of of what you have now with all the new ones and some deaths?

Hopefully m tank is nearly ready to start stocking with some shrimp next week!

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Somehow they tend to like this moss, is there a reason behind it. Current situation are the shrimps are dying 1 or 2 from time to time, I'm still pretty happy with the results as I know this will happen, it has happen in the passed.

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You have a lovely selection. I also usually get the odd one die when they are new but if they survive the first 2 weeks then they should be ok. What happened to the CBS or black taiwan bee shrimps, you had quite a few of those?

I should get my first shrimps today so hopefully all will go well with getting those into the tank?

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You have a lovely selection. I also usually get the odd one die when they are new but if they survive the first 2 weeks then they should be ok. What happened to the CBS or black taiwan bee shrimps, you had quite a few of those?

I should get my first shrimps today so hopefully all will go well with getting those into the tank?

Simon

Sorry about that, I still have those in the old tank, there is so many shrimps in their, not sure how many from adult to free swimming babies at 2mm.

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I was going to purchase another 5 Red Wine today for about GBP10, but the shop only got them in and still in the bag drip acclimated, although they did say I can still buy them. I held myself back from the purchased till tmr.

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You probably don't need more at this stage as when they start breeding (up to 30 shrimplets each female, every month) you will be needing more tanks????? Those are cheap shrimps though, mine were just over GBP8 each!

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Great to hear all is going so well! If you have a lot of CBS then they will breed when they are old enough so losing the 'mother' isn't too bad at this stage and they only love max 2 years anyway. Glad you still have 2 blue bolts as well - those will probably be my next purchase when they are in stock?

The putting spinach in my tank has brought a few of my shrimps out but bizarrely they aren't touching the actual spinach? Seen 2 black and 3 red (of the 8 total I bought) so far today?

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I will try to add all the old tank's shrimps at the end of August to the new tank, had a problem with my chiller this morning, try to make it more efficient by adding a better heat sink grease, I added a liquid metal grease, apparently you can't add liquid metal, when heating up, the heat sink turning to dust, along with part of the cooler inlet and outlet.

The Indium in Liquid metal will eat through aluminium. Only copper or nickel plated heatsinks can be used with liquid metal. It says so on the packet, at least my pack of Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut does.

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We had a day of extreme (for UK) hot weather here last week and I resorted to freezing the water bottles and then putting them into the shrimp tank to try and keep the temperature lower than it would otherwise have been. The shrimps were all hiding all day so I hoped they wouldn't notice the cold water at the top? The temperature got to about 28 degrees in that tank. Luckily it was just the one day here and I have seen some shrimps since but I don't know whether it affected/killed any? I think the cherry shrimps in the other 2 tanks were ok in water over 30 degrees as were the fish as seen those since?

I had thought about making lots of ice and putting that in the dripper and as it thawed it would then drip the cold/cooler water into the tank, but I didn't try that so don't know how well that may work? I may make some ice from zerowater in case so that I am ready IF (hopefully not) it happens again this summer???

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I had a lot of shrimps that died, the water was over 34 degree celcius, so I was forced to make the move, let just hope the rest survive, both chiller is daisy chained together, and seems to be working alright, temperature is now about 26 degree Celsius.

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SO sorry to hear that, my big disaster was at about 33 degrees. Be prepared for the worst though as all mine that were transferred alive to a new tank at that point ended up dying as well the next day so I know how devastated you must be feeling.............

I will keep my fingers crossed that some survive but be prepared for them to not!

I certainly feel your pain and know how you feel! Sorry to hear such bad news.

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Really pleased to hear that some of the shrimps survived and are doing well ATM! It is also good to hear you haven't been put off by the previous incident either!

At least you have readily available sources of fabulous shrimps so you shouldn't have a problem re-stocking there?

I was looking at the fan sets over here in case we get a lot of heat but probably won't get anything new like that until I am sure ALL else is going well, so probably something for next summer in reality as we are two thirds through our summer already anyway. Also not sure how it all works as they seem to be 12V???????. Hope the new chiller works well so you don't have a repeat disaster?

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Had a quick look in my new invertebrates book and think they are Limnopilos naiganetri! If so it says temperature 24 to 28, Ph 7.5 - 8.5. They should be given driftwood and floating plants. It also says that although they carry eggs, raising the young has not been done in captivity (book produced 2015). This youtube video says she has had breeding though????
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPOIq4AsZCE
I had thought about getting some in the past but as she says they are a bit like spiders so that put me off................
Hope everything else is going well still!
Simon

I'm really happy, finally a local shop in Hong Kong had some of these crabs, not to sure which variation of the spider crabs,, but they advertised them as miniature spider crabs (Limnopilos naiyanetri) , I was going to bring them back from Taiwan if I find any, but no need now, got them for about GBP 13.50 for 10 crabs, I will pick up another 30 crabs in the next few day.
The first photo is the crabs in the bag, I won't get home till tmr, the second photo is taken at the shop.

You can do large water changes, I do it every 6 months to reset the minerals in the water, but you cannot just dump the new water back into the tank. It needs to be fed in slowly. I drip in the new water after adjusting it to match previous parameters.

Shrimp don't need much of a water change as they are low bioload! I have 30L and only do 2L per week so as with JayC cut back on the water change amount, even .5 litre would be ok! Large water changes tend to trigger moulting so they may be moulting too often?
They may drop the eggs if they aren't fertilised and therefore unwanted!
Have you seen any that look to be able yet?
Simon